[Birdtalk] Sibley mistake?

[Glen Warchol]

The Onion is hysterical--it's a joke and a good one. Obviously The O
has a birder on the staff.
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>---- Original Message ----
>From: tanager at timaverybirding.com
>To: westwings at sisna.com
>Subject: Re: [Birdtalk] Sibley mistake?
>Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:46:56 -0600
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>>For those who don;'t know, the onion is a spoof paper.  If you look
>in your
>>Sibley, Dark-eyed Junco is at te eend of sparrows section, before
>the
>>Longspurs, and way before the finches.  Clearly in the correct
>section.
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>>I am not at home to check my field guide, but I think this is a
>joke....  As
>>with every article ever written in the onion.
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>>Cheers,
>>
>>Tim
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>>Quoting Mark Stackhouse <westwings at sisna.com>:
>>
>>> I picked this up off of Tweeters (WA state list serve):
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>>> http://www.theonion.com/content/node/60500/print/
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>>> If true I'm shocked, shocked I tell you . . .
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>>> Unfortunately, I'm stuck here in San Blas while my copy of Sibley
>sits
>>> in Salt Lake City. Can somebody check if this is so?
>>>
>>> Mark Stackhouse
>>> mark at westwings.com
>>> 801-487-9453 (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
>>> 011-52-323-285-1243 (San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico)
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>>Good Birding
>>
>>Tim
>>Salt Lake City, UT
>>tanager at timaverybirding.com
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